Html code in database and web page

[wmac]

Hello,

I am trying to save a submitted "Html code" into database and then show it in the form of "Html Code" in a web page (this is a programming tutorial website, so I need the codes to be shown without being mixed with the web page itself).

How can I escape the html code when saving to database in a way that later I can show it on a web page.

Thank you for your time.

[YAOMK]

This section of phpbuilder.com, is a forum intended to provide help in regards to particular issues. Here are a couple functions that you may find useful. When submitting input from html to the database use mysql_real_escape_string(), to present text back in html you could use htmlspecialchars()

[rincewind456]

You would be better off using [man]htmlentities/man to display your html, as it covers all characters that have HTML character entity equivalents.